Iranian official: Strategy now focused on expelling US from entire region

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic’s strategy is now focused on the exit of the United States from the region amid the continued war of aggression waged by the US and Israel against Iran.

“We will not back down with threats, nor with empty noise and drama. This region is our playground,” Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the Supreme Defense Council, wrote in a post on X on Friday.

He added that Iran’s responses are based on rational and genuine calculations, not Hollywood dramas.
“At the first step, the Islamic Revolution expelled the US from Iran, and the second step is to expel America from the region,” he emphasized.

Ahmadian’s post was a reaction to recent rhetoric by US President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who both threatened to bomb the Islamic Republic "back to the Stone Age".

Speaking from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, Trump delivered a 20-minute primetime address. The speech was widely viewed as a copy-and-paste rehash of his recent Truth Social posts regarding his ongoing war of aggression on Iran.

During the broadcast, Trump repeated his threat to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Age." He also explicitly threatened to target the nation's civilian infrastructure, including vital power plants and oil facilities.

In a post on his X account on Friday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian censured American threats to bomb the Islamic Republic "back to the Stone Age," warning that those who keep silent in the face of criminals will pay "a heavy price."

“Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist,” he wrote.

“History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals,” the Iranian president emphasized.

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